Sentences with phrase «at statehouses»

Some students left class for a few minutes while others headed to rallies at their statehouses.

Kansas state Rep. Louis Ruiz, left, and Sen. David Haley, right, both D - Kansas City, confer during a break in negotiations on adoption legislation, Thursday, May 3, 2018, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan..

Pence signed it into law in a closed - press ceremony at the statehouse, surrounded by nuns, monks, and right - wing lobbyists.

Lawmakers at the Statehouse are considering proposals that would prohibit Massachusetts school districts from denying hot lunches to children who don't have the money to pay for them or whose parents have fallen behind on meal plan installments.

Democratic state senators Ronald Rice and Joseph Cryan and Republican Sen. Robert Singer unveiled the legislation at a statehouse news conference Thursday.

BOISE, Idaho — A Republican Idaho state senator yelled «abortion is murder» at a group of students who were pushing for birth control legislation at the Statehouse and now faces...

Mr. Stringer acknowledged in an interview on Monday that he would have to win support in Albany for his plan to work — no easy task at a Statehouse where suburban lawmakers are in open revolt against a payroll tax meant to pay for mass transit.

«I'm glad to have the vice president in my corner,» Brownback told reporters after a meeting with Kansas legislative leaders at the statehouse in Topeka.

David Wildstein takes an oath during a hearing Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. AP Photo

A number of labor advocates were at the statehouse in Montpelier Tuesday to call on legislators to pass bills that would raise the state's minimum wage to a livable wage and guarantee paid sick days for all employees.

Working together at the statehouse, Howe had forged a bond with Cuomo's son and he followed Andrew Cuomo to Washington, where he worked as a policy and strategic adviser at the Department of Housing and Urban Development when Cuomo was HUD secretary under President Bill Clinton.

«Hamilton County has been very fortunate to have Senator Kenley's leadership at the Statehouse for many years,» said Wiles.

A weightier matter, de Blasio's request to impose a «millionaire's tax» on super-high income households, has died at the statehouse door without fanfare (or so much as a hearing or vote in the Senate) every year since he took office in 2014.

When they were rebuffed at the statehouse and decided to walk off the job to get their humble ask, they saw no pushback.

Over at the Statehouse, Gov. Chris Christie just christened yet another task force to address special education woes.

Still, Senator Scott Schneider, R - Indianapolis, argues the conversation about standards that's happening at the statehouse now is one Indiana can't afford not to have.

Opponents of the Common Core rally at the statehouse before a January Senate Education Committee hearing.

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Members of the IACTE Executive Committee at the chapter's inaugural Day at the Statehouse in February

We held a series of productive conversations and meetings, culminating in the capstone experience of the first IACTE «Day at the Statehouse» event in February.

LFC President Ann Duplessis joined more than 1,000 children at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, to rally for school choice options.

With this budget bill not likely to be finalized until some time in June, and with the Ohio Department of Education being given until the end of October to create this new shared attribution system, could someone at the Statehouse please explain how schools and districts are supposed to begin the year with this highly - accountable process is such drastic flux?

About 200 people affiliated with Hoosiers Against Common Core rallied at the statehouse before the Education Roundtable meeting and marched in with signs panning the state's efforts to write new standards.

Opponents of the Common Core, a set of nationally - crafted academic standards, rallied at the statehouse Wednesday before a Senate Education Committee hearing.

Under the amended bill, the state would halt implementation of the standards until a series of public hearings is held at the Statehouse.

Advocates for both courses of action will be at the statehouse Monday afternoon to testify before a special panel of state lawmakers which, by Nov. 1, must recommend to the State Board of Education whether to keep or ditch the standards.

Erin Tuttle, left, and Heather Crossin speak at a statehouse rally calling for Indiana's withdrawal from the Common Core State Standards.

Opponents of the Common Core, a set of nationally - crafted academic standards, rally at the statehouse.

Opponents of the Common Core, a set of nationally - crafted academic standards, rallied at the statehouse in January.

Sen. Scott Schneider, R - Indianapolis, speaks at an anti-Common Core rally at the statehouse in January.

Sen. Scott Schneider, R - Indianapolis, speaks at a rally at the statehouse in January.

But the group is convinced it's building a reputation as an authoritative voice on school issues at the Statehouse, said Mike Carpenter, the director of StudentsFirst's Tennessee chapter.

But those expectations are currently under review at the statehouse, and state education officials may chose to take a different course.

If you followed any of Wednesday's Common Core proceedings at the statehouse, you probably heard about Michael Petrilli's defense of the nationally - crafted academic standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia.

Education will continue to be a critical issue at the Statehouse with public promises from Gov. Butch Otter and other state officials to increase school funding.

This week at the Statehouse, the state superintendent bill gets a revival in the Senate and the Senate unveils its education budget.

This spring, the new governor has outlined an ambitious plan to address the inequities, but it faces opposition at the statehouse.

But issues at the statehouse haven't stopped Evansville educators from continuing to achieve student success through the Equity Schools program.

And Stand for Children's lobbying stable includes some of the biggest contract lobbyists at the Statehouse.

«Now we have clear evidence that we're paying for excellence,» he says, «so when you come to the table at the statehouse or with taxpayers, I think it's a much more palatable conversation to say we need more money.»

The battle over PIACS hasn't gone unnoticed at the Statehouse.

University of Missouri - Kansas City first - year student Brandon Henderson travels to Jefferson City twice a week to represent student interests at the statehouse.

The goal was to overcome what Klipsch referred to as «the problem» — the Indiana State Teachers Association, which his presentation calls «the most powerful political force at the Statehouse and at the ballot box» and «the biggest spender by far» in Indiana politics.

They have been able to leverage this in organizing large grassroots protests both at the statehouse and across Indiana.

We need action at the statehouse, not just the schoolhouse, to enable educators to succeed in spite of it.

«The hundreds of professional educators lobbying at the Statehouse today represent hundreds not in the classroom,» Holcomb said in a written statement.

Next week a bill that would withdraw from the Common Core will get a lengthy hearing at the statehouse.

Summer break has started — but not at the Statehouse.

Last month, West Virginia State Director Summer Wyatt and an enthusiastic group of 21 activists braved the snow and lobbied for animals at the Statehouse.

In January, addresses the Massachusetts Board of Education at the statehouse to request increased support for arts in the public school system and to propose several approaches to arts in the core curriculum; during summer, collaborates with Townsend and guest artists Richard Rosenblum, Richard Baker, Paul Bowen, James Balla, George Marsh, and Varujan Baghosian at the New Provincetown Print Project; solo exhibition: Monotypes by Michael Mazur for the Inferno, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City (travels through 1997 with Mazur and Pinsky giving lectures on their collaboration at eight venues).